Ya I agree honestly I'm much like you were/are and I was considered a weird o for doing such and still am. "Why do waste your time with that stuff you could be having fun." I respond back with "fun.... This is fun. Bettering my life, gaining knowledge, and not being a waste of space... (Little chuckle)".
My generation has so much access to knowledge, giving us potential to be the smartest and greatest generation. However, only very few actually use this to better themselves. Most of them are focused sooo much on having fun. They end up not having fun, depressed, lazy, uneducated, worthless, sh!ts. My generation will NOT by any means be the greatest generation, NOT EVEN CLOSE, which is just a shame.
I blame it MOSTLY on us but it's also is how the government has made it. As well as the over protective parents, who want rewards for there kids just trying. Plus the culture demasculation of males.
Well said. And I agree to a point. When I was almost 20 I discovered Ayn Rand and one of her thoughts was that 5% of the population is leaders and the rest are followers. The followers will never understand the leaders or why they do what they do, the leaders will never care if they are understood. This idea has interesting distinctions that changed my view on life.
If you are worried about the 95% and what they are or are not doing, you too are a follower. You may have some traits of a leader...But you are still following.
Leaders lead and they don't worry about anyone else - they are just doing what they do.
I also think that, Ayn Rand wrote this a long time ago. If we were around when she came up with this observation, we would be looking at the 95% that is everywhere and thinking the same thing. It has ALWAYS appeared that people aren't great, because so few of any population act with greatness. But that 5% creates everything and marks their entire generation.
Having said that, information has become so easy to access, but knowledge and intelligence has slipped away. It is a paradox of technology.
This paradox is most prevelant if you think of the telephone. 150 years ago if you wanted to talk to someone, you had to go walk to their house. They had no way of knowing you were coming. You just showed up and talked and both people had to deal with it.
Then the phone came around and communication became easier, more accessible, but our ability to deal with social situations eroded a little. Eventually, you didn't show up without calling.
Now, the internet makes communication ubiquitous, and people can talk instantly from across the country, but true connection is harder and harder. Despite having so much access to other people, we are lonlier and lonlier.
This doesn't mean technology is bad either. Just that we have to spend more time learning how to appropriately use technology and live life. The irony of this message is I type out these thoughts on a board powered by that technology and that technology and this board has allowed me to make connections with people I would have never known otherwise - people with similar desires and interest. People who support me, teach me. People I consider to be real friends in a world where making friends face to face has become very difficult ...Even people who I have had heated arguments with, we've gotten angry with each other, and turned it around and become better friends for it.